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dispossess - use in sentences
Object
- defender: Foday Touray created a chance when he dispossessed a defender on the byline, but from a tight angle he chipped the ball wide.
- tenant: Some offered dispossessed tenants free of subsidized passages to North America, or attempted to encourage local industry.
- spirit: Googlebot Wont Go Home I have ' Googlebot ' crawl my site every day like a dispossessed spirit that can't leave.
- farmer: Whilst the land reform program was complete, Britain should compensate the dispossessed white farmers.
- nation: And because of these filthy acts Jehovah your God is dispossessing these nations before you.
- owner: Below them may be the members of a subclan who are the dispossessed original owners of the village.
Subject
- machine: Plebeian agitators had been dispossessed by machines and treated as machines.
Modifying Another Word
- easily: Ponderous, Langley gave balls away or was easily dispossessed.
- eventually: In other words, the goal is to eventually dispossess them of their homeland and their capital, Jerusalem.
- then: Chuck Martini was caught out by a poor back pass and then dispossessed by Da Coast who then shot in.
- also: In the second, the producers were also dispossessed but produced at home on orders from a capitalist merchant.
- not: I am not dispossessed of the last view but it may be a matter of emphasis.
- now: The world's dispossessed now depend almost entirely on the work of the aid agencies.
Used with why or when
- who: It will come from the dispossessed who no longer have access to health services, good education and jobs.
- when: He was a slick player and never easy to dispossess when he had the ball despite his stature.
Preposition: of
- land: The Asylum was first dispossessed of land in order to build a similar institution for boys.
- world: The dispossessed of this world seem to understand that this is no longer an option for liberation ( if it ever was ).
Preposition: by
- machine: Plebeian agitators had been dispossessed by machines and treated as machines.
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